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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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